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slide down dialog not visible

This is really a bug report which I tried to put in Apple feedback but it was too long to fit there.


Problem: I was typing in an address bar and a slide down for an error or warning appeared but I could only see the edge of the dialog. It then disappeared because I was typing. I never did see the dialog and I do not know what I accidentally said "ok" to. This happened a couple times in a row, as I tried to figure out what was going on, but I was never able to read the warning or error message.


To reproduce: I can't fully reproduce this because I can't cause an error or warning to occur at just the right time.

  1. I had a small Safari window open, measuring 558 x 338. It was a pop up from a Ning chat room on a private site and as such did not have an address bar or a bookmarks bar.
  2. I selected it and typed cmd-T to open up a tab in it.
  3. I started typing to the address bar intending to select an url from the drop down.



Problem 1:


  • What happened: A warning or error appeared but I could only see the left edge of it because the drop down from the address bar was over top of most of the error or warning dialog.
  • I expected: To be able to see and read warning and error dialogs. I still don't know why this error or warning occurred.



Problem 2:


  • What happened: Typing enter caused the error or warning to disappear as if I clicked "ok".
  • I expected: To select something on the drop down list and then maybe see the error.



As I mentioned above, I tried this a couple times just trying to figure out what was happening, and this warning or warning did appear about 3 times, though I never got a chance to see it. I was going to try resizing the window the next time to see if that would make a difference but it stopped happening.


I checked the console and found errors about this which makes it looks like it happened 6 times. I'm wondering now if the dialog was completely hidden at other times because I didn't notice this happening 6 times. The first occurrence is below. There are no earlier messages from Safari in the console to indicate what this warning or error might have been about.


4/17/14 5:34:12.282 PM Safari[7575]: **** Misuse of NSImage and CALayer. contentsGravity is top. It should be one of resize, resizeAspect, or resizeAspectFill.

0 AppKit 0x00007fff82474af7 NSViewBackingLayerTestImageUsage + 544

1 AppKit 0x00007fff824748aa -[_NSViewBackingLayer setContentsGravity:] + 94

2 AppKit 0x00007fff82408412 -[NSView _setSuperview:] + 1363

3 AppKit 0x00007fff8240b0f8 -[NSView removeFromSuperview] + 332

4 AppKit 0x00007fff82b139fc -[NSThemeFrame _layerBackedAnimateToolbarWithReason:showToolbarPostWindowFrame:] + 1602

5 AppKit 0x00007fff82512cd4 -[NSThemeFrame _growWindowReshapeContentAndToolbarView:animate:] + 1993

6 AppKit 0x00007fff825124b9 -[NSThemeFrame _reshapeContentAndToolbarView:resizeWindow:animate:] + 325

7 AppKit 0x00007fff825106a7 -[NSThemeFrame _showHideToolbar:resizeWindow:animate:] + 486

8 AppKit 0x00007fff824f7ffa -[NSWindow _showToolbar:animate:] + 217

9 Safari 0x0000000107f8b9d4 -[BrowserWindowControllerMac _toggleToolbarIgnoringCurrentEvent:] + 120

10 Safari 0x0000000107f76993 -[BrowserWindowControllerMac toggleLocationBar:] + 124

11 Safari 0x0000000107f8af1c -[BrowserWindowControllerMac _toggleLocationBarWithoutSavingConfiguration] + 78

12 Safari 0x0000000107f8aebc -[BrowserWindowControllerMac _showLocationBarTemporarilyIfHidden] + 42

13 Safari 0x0000000107f75f3f -[BrowserWindowControllerMac newTab:] + 173

14 AppKit 0x00007fff82611340 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 327

15 Safari 0x0000000107f0d297 -[BrowserApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 63

16 AppKit 0x00007fff8262c2a8 -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 394

17 AppKit 0x00007fff8262bfe4 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 117

18 AppKit 0x00007fff8262b15c -[NSMenu performKeyEquivalent:] + 289

19 Safari 0x0000000107f81e19 -[BrowserWindowControllerMac window:performKeyEquivalent:] + 397

20 Safari 0x00000001081abc91 -[Window performKeyEquivalent:] + 84

21 Safari 0x0000000107f6e397 -[BrowserWindow performKeyEquivalent:] + 50

22 AppKit 0x00007fff82627852 -[NSApplication _handleKeyEquivalent:] + 455

23 AppKit 0x00007fff82596bdc -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 3293

24 Safari 0x0000000107f0d4ab -[BrowserApplication sendEvent:] + 409

25 AppKit 0x00007fff823e6b89 -[NSApplication run] + 646

26 AppKit 0x00007fff823d1913 NSApplicationMain + 940

27 Safari 0x00000001080dfc8d SafariMain + 267

28 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff8b6a25fd start + 1

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 17, 2014 3:41 PM

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Apr 18, 2014 4:04 PM in response to Liz M

An addendum about something I hadn't noticed before. If you find yourself in this situation, if you try resizing the window, the URL dropdown might disappear. It does disappear if there isn't a slide down. Once it's gone, the slide down might still be there for you to read.


Though if you're like me, you're probably typing so fast that you hit enter before you quite realize the slide down is there. This also doesn't help if the slide down is completely hidden and so you don't even know it's there...

slide down dialog not visible

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